Other Resource Leaks

We characterized a program leaking memory to be one that allocates more memory than it needs. By this definition, there could be other resources provided by the platform/OS that the program could be leaking. True enough, memory leaks are just one type of leak. There are other resources that a long-running program can leak that can cause as much damage, if not more. In this lesson, we’ll take a look at some of them, and their ...